St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-05

the agony of his sufferings before death
came to his release. NJ. R. Parks. whose
address could not be learned, was also
wedged In the wreck, and burned to death
after handing his money, letters and cards
to one OF the railroad employees. His body
was also consumed, as were those of sew
eral others, whose names are not known.
aid perhaps never will be. When the re-
porter reached the scene of the holocaust at
l O'Clock to-day the ruins of the baggage
car. express, smoker and coach were still
burning and scores of hands were endeav-
orlng to clear the track. Here and there
could be reen sheets of blood and piers of
half
BURNED AND FROZEN HUMAN FLESH
and the wOrkmen were still finding por.
tions of bodies in the burning wreck. All
the mail. express and baggage were burned.
Including large sums OF money. The scene
at the Chamberlain establishment was one
calculated to make the Stoutest heart quail.
Nine shapeless trunks of human beings
were stretched out in row. like so many
charred logs. There were Postlethwate
and his two sons side by side. and seven
others, none of whom could be recognized.
and near them mass of flesh and bone
that may have been parts of the bodies of
a dozen different people. At the depot
was found William F. Smith. of
Waynesborough. who was passenger
in the coach next TO the sleepers. He was
sitting in the front part of the car when the
collision occurred. He was thrown vio-
lently against the front door of the car, but
was not injured in the least He did not
think there had been a collision, but that
the train had run off the track. He helped
the ladies in the car, gathered up their
wraps and said that when he went back to
his seat to get his hat he noticed
THE SMOKER IN FLAMES.
and saw an emigrant jump from the car
through the roof and a wall of flames. He
said no one in the coach was hurt seriously.
One man had his hand burned slightly by
falling against the stove. After getting
out of the car he helped to uncouple the two
sieeperS and push them down the track
so they would not be burned. He then
picked up the PoStlethwaIte little girl, who
was wandering around in the snow, and
carried her to the depot at Republic. w.
S. Price, the baggagemaSter, was burned to
a crisp. His home is at Wheeling. There
were, no doubt, many more who pershed
in the wreck, as the number of persons VINO
and the remains recovered is not
equal to the number reported in the car
The number actually lost may never be
known. \ number of watches were found
in the wreck, and one of them is described
as follows: Open face; marked |. w. q
Co.; three-ounce case: jewel-mounteu
Springfield movement: case No. 932, 099.
Conductor Fletcher says the engineer of
the freight
WAS DRUNK.
His name is Kyler, and he is now at
Chicago Junction. Conductor Haskell, of
the passenger, was in the sleeper, and ran
forward in time to receive some papers
from the dying men Ballard and Parks.
The piles of ashes and debris now to be
seen at the place of the collision are full of
bones, remains of jewelry and melted silver
money. Ten of the killed are unknown.
An old gentleman named Ferguson, of
Bloomsdale. left Plttsburg Oh the express
and has not since been heard from. His
son was tonight looking among the debris
TO find something by which to identify one
of the black pulpS as his father. The corO-
ner of Seneca county has not yet be-
gun a regular examination of witnesses.
The blame seems to be with the crew of the
freight train. At least fifteen were killed.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
TIFFIN, o.. Jan. AT, 2 o'clock this
thewest- bound fast train known
as the Erie express on the Baltimore 81
Ohio road collided with freight train one
mile west of Republic. The express does
not make stop at the town of Republic, a
village Of 900 inhabitants. nine miles west
OF this city, and it is supposed it was run
ming at speed of not less than sixty miles
an hour. The freight eastward bound,
had expected to make siding at Republic
and was stalled. The engines were run
into each other as one stove pipe fits into
its mate, and all that could be seen was
one chaotic mass Of brass, iron and steel.
At an early hour there were
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
coming to the scene of the disaster ready
and anxious to do what they could for any
OF the unfortunate sufferers who might need
help. but it appears that just as soon as the
Baltimore 81 Ohio agents could get to the
place where the wreck occurred for some
reason they were behoOved to hastily carry
out of the county the wounded. dying and
dead. The correspondent was only per-
mitted to see four persons that bad escaped
the awful holocaust, in which it is believed
that there were at least twenty-five bodies
burnt into sickening, crispy mass of flesh
and bones, beyond all possible recognition.
From the report OF a survivor it would ap-
pear that number of the unfortunates
were not only swallowed up in the wrath of
the awful fiery furnace. but that their bodies
were so perfectly incmerated that their
ashes could not be gathered from the debris
The sight was Sickening and most forbid
ding to witness. Those who were saved
from the wreck remaining in Republic
were mother with three little ones hardly
out of their swaddling clothes, the husband
and father of the children, with two sons.
having been devoured by the wrathful
flames of the burning cars. In some way
that even this mother was unable to relate
SHE GOT OUT OF THE CAR
in which she had been travelling and,
wandering away from the burning train,
carried her two youngest children in her
arms, entering the first house in which she
found light. She was almost craZed with
fear. and with difficulty it was ascer-
tanned that her. name was Mrs.
Mary Postlethwaite. The family We're
on their road to Missouri and expected to
find home in Chillicothe, of that state
They have been living hear the town of
Bolton, Wetzle county, W. Va. Her hus-
band, William Postlethwaite, was SO years
of age, and the SONS killed with him were
aged Is and IL. The agents of the Balti-
more Il Ohio endeavOred to take care of the
mother and children by sending them to
Chicago junction. where the company has
a hotel. On advice. however, of her
friends, who were telegraphed, she con-
sented to remain in Republic until she
should hear from her son, who remained in
West Virginia. 1t was pitiful sight TO
see the poor woman. now breaking forth
in the waiIing tones of her awful grief, and
then to see her little boy, not over 4 years
Of age, endeavoring to comfort her with
the words: "Oh, mamma, don't cry;
don't cry, mamma. I'll get papa,'
little realizing the terrible and almost des-
perate grief of his anguiSh-stricken and
deSOate mother PostlethWaite had on his